Alida van Dijk

Alida co-founded the Community Counselling Centre of London motivated by years of working with patients in hospital settings from all walks of life. She is unsettled by the needs of people who could benefit from therapy but who often do not have the financial resources to pay full price for counselling sessions. Alida combines her passion for journeying with people in life changes with her love of teaching and supervising therapist interns on how to provide psychospiritual therapy.

Alida is a Registered Psychotherapist (RP) in the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario, a Certified Psychospiritual Therapist, Certified Spiritual Care Practitioner and Certified Supervisor-Educator (PTE and CPE) with the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care/Association canadienne de soins spirituels, and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP).  She completed a PhD in Human Relationships in the field of Spiritual Care and Psychotherapy.  

Among her epic adventures in life, Alida completed two cross-country Sea to Sea bicycle rides during the summers 2005 (Vancouver to Halifax) and 2008 (Seattle, WA to Jersey City,NJ).